Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa Past and Present

by Peterson, Bhekizizwe; Remmington, Janet; Willan, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781868149810
• ISBN10: 1868149811
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-08-01
• Publisher: Wits University Press

Summary

First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa’s most talented early 20th-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje’s pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje’s investigative journeying into South Africa’s rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government.

Author Biography

Bhekizizwe Peterson is professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Janet Remmington is a publisher, researcher, and writer now based at the University of York. Brian Willan is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University. He edited and introduced the Ravan Press edition of Native Life in South Africa in 1982.